Bundy by Richard W. Larsen

Author:Richard W. Larsen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Ted Bundy, Bundy: The Deliberate Stranger, Richard W. Larsen, Serial killer, Notorious killer, Death Row, Electric chair, Volkswagen beetle, Lake Sammamish, Salt Lake City, Utah, Tallahassee Florida, Seattle Washington, Mark Harmon playing Ted Bundy, Liz Kloepfer, American serial killer who killed at least 30 women, confessed to the murders of 30 people, Lonnie Trumbell, Lisa Wick, Lynda Ann Healy, Joni Lenz, Donna Manson, Susan Rancourt, Roberta Parks, Brenda Carol Ball, Georgeann Hawkins, Janice Ott, Denise Marie Naslund, Nancy Wilcox, Melissa Smith, Laura Aime, Carol DaRonch, Debby Kent, Carol Valenzuela, Melanie Cooley, Denise Oliverson, Carole Ann Boone
Publisher: Richard W. Larsen
Published: 2019-01-12T16:00:00+00:00

Carlisle and the other examiners would not disagree that it was, as Ted said, “extremely difficult” to enter the tightly locked doors Carlisle sensed were within the man. Again and again he pondered words Ted had used to describe events and his responses. During that period when his once-exclusive relationship with his mother had been changed abruptly by her marriage to Johnnie Bundy: “Life was not sweet, but not a nightmare.” And Ted’s recollections of “the buzzing, baffling world of kindergarten.” And his adjustment: “I didn’t feel like an outcast.

“I had lots of friends,” Ted said of his early high-school years. But then, too, he spoke of becoming “less dependent on my friends and more of an individualist.” During his crucial formative years, when the young teenager usually seeks new social experiences, Ted fell into a very private, introverted pastime. For hours, he listened to the radio, finding pleasure, he explained, in memorizing voices he heard. “Social relationships were not that important. ... I just felt secure with the academic life.”

There could have been an implication, too, in Ted’s aborted interest in entering a fraternity during his first weeks at the University of Washington. He appeared to betray a feeling of inferiority, of some hostility when he explained how he turned away from the whirl of fraternity-sorority life: “I wasn’t interested in the social politicking, the emphasis on clothes and parties. It was shallow and superficial.” Whether by choice or otherwise, Ted was on the outside, looking in, at the rather exclusive social world, the laughing, beautiful people who resided in “Greek Row” at the edge of the campus.

During his questioning of Ted about his relationships with women, Dr. Carlisle’s attention focused on Diane, the strikingly beautiful, tall brunette with whom Ted became infatuated during his first years at the University of Washington. In an interview at her California home, Diane had confided that, at the end of 1973, she had the distinct impression that Ted and she were engaged; that Ted’s intention was marriage. But then, she said, he subsequently refused to write or telephone her. When asked about that, Ted coolly explained, “I just wanted to prove to myself that I could have married her.”

Dr. Carlisle reflected much later that Ted might have been fearful of entering into a deep relationship with a woman of such extraordinary poise and confidence. Perhaps haunted by insecurities and self-doubts, he turned away, into his loneliness ... perhaps with bitterness.

(More than a year later, in a personal letter, Ted engaged in some free-wheeling memories of Diane, perhaps betraying his feeling of inferiorities. “All right, so she had a Mustang. ... And so what if she may have been the most beautiful woman I had ever seen, or have seen since: tall, dark haired, smooth, and oh, so sophisticated. She moved like something out of Vogue and anything she wore looked like a million dollars. I, on the other hand, possessed the innocence of a missionary, the worldliness of a farm boy. ... She and I had about as much in common as Sears and Roebuck has with Saks.

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